Improvement in boot and shoe tips



N0. 33,440. I IIATENTED cow. 8, 1861.

' T. J. MAYALL.

BOOT 0R SHOE TIP.

UNiTEn STATES ATENT THOMAS J. MAYALL, OF ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN BOOT AND SHOE TlP S.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. MAYALL, 0 Roxbury,in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented anew and useful Boot and Shoe Tip, the same forming an article of manufacture never-before known or used; and Ido hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is such a full and clear description thereof as to enable others skilled in the art to which this my invention pertains to make and use the same.

In boots and shoes, more particularly those designed for. childrens wear, it has before been proposed to protect the toe portion of the boot or shoe by using a tip or end cover slightly overlapping the upper and secured at its base between the solca-nd upper. These tips have been made of variousmaterals, including leather and metal. Leather tips afford but little protection and are disadvantageous in -n1a-ny respects. To the metallic tips there are also serious objections and they are mainly or solely applicable to pegged work ---that is, boots and shoes in which the sole is united to theupper by pegs. These objections do not apply totips made of indiarubber or its equivalent, which are softer on the toe, impervious to damp, and if properly constructed may be securely held by stitching them to their place in boots and shoes which have their soles unitedto the upper by sewing. Thus the india-rubber, with its lining or backing of elastic knitted fabric, yields too readily and tears or opens in sewing the tips to their places and. the stitches fail to hold the tips, or it holding them till the work is completed, by' only drawing the stitches slightly taut. thetips are veryinsecurely held against rough usage and will readily open or tear away from the stitches by strain on them or the thread which holds them. here described, which isacompound one, obviates these and other defects, yet retains all the advantages of india-ruhber or its equivalent asamaterial for boot and shoe tips and makes a practicable and serviceable india-rubber tip such as never before has been proposed or used.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a boot or shoe tip made according to my invention, and

The new tipresponds with or forms, asit were, a materialpart or section of the sole and constitutes a soft but stiff base for the tip, it being made of linen or other suitable cloth, or material, which, while pliable and adapted to stitching on or through, is non-elastic as compared with the india-rubber portion a b of the tip. The

india-rubber a of this compound tip is gradually thinned or feathered away on its under side to form a flat junction of it with or over the web 0, so that the sole of the boot or shoe will'lie closed against both the rubber and the linen web." lVhen fitted to its place, said tip lies between the sole and upper, lapping over the toe'port-ion of the latter, the web 0 being covered on the inside by, say, the inner sole or lining of the shoe. The linen-web c portion of the tip, which may also, if desired, be cemented or glued between the sole and the lining not simply forms a broad and-steady base for the tip to facilitate and secure the retention of the latter in or to its place, but being comparatively non-elastic it serves as a suitable material by or through which to unite by sewing the tip with or to the toe portion of the shoe, it not yielding or tearing when straining on the thread, nor the stitches cutting or opening it, as would be thecase were said web dispensed with and the stitches solely passed through the rubber portion of the tip. r

To those in the trade it is scarcely, necessary here to illustrate how such a compound tip is or may be made. Some modes or processes of constructing it may be better than others. It will suffice, therefore, here to say that the rubber portion a of thetip may be first out in blank form out of sheet indiarubber, supported or unsupported by elastic backing b, and the linen web oblank vbe also out froin'a sheetithen the web lnid on the toe end of thesole-fece of a last and the rubber tip applied on theopposite side and turned up over the Web at its edge and made to amalgamatewith it by 'the'action of pressure, and the overlapping portion of the rubber'on-the web-gradually drawn or thinned down to form an easy finish with it, after which the rubber may be thinned and made regular round the edge of the toe and the whole suitably blacked and varnished and subjected to any suitable vulcanizing process of or on the rubber to make of the compound toe-tip a perfect urticle readyffor useby the boot and shoe maker. v v

What I claim-as my invention, and desire to. have secured m ne by Letters Patent, is

1. The compound boot or shoe tip made,

substantially as described, by forming it of rubber or-rubber-conted cloth braced by and united with a cross-Web of linen or its equivalent, essentially as and for the purpose or purposesherein set forth.

2. Thinning or gradually reducing the rubber tip at or toward its junction and finish with the cross-web of the tip, substantially as shown and described.

'ruos J. MAYALL.

Witnesses:

A. POLLAK, A. W. BROWN. 

